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jaredhobbs:
This is a shameless plug for the website I made for my senior software engineering project (in computer science). The site is http://www.trackthismix.com and the premise is making and trading mixtapes or mixcds. A user registers with the site, creates a mix and uploads the playlist along with a location where they're going to leave it. The user then gets a mix ID number and should then write the number and website address on the cd and leave it where they said they would. When someone finds the cd, they can look up the ID at the site and comment on it. The site will track the submitted and found cds of registered users and there's also a search for registered users.

So what do you guys think? We got around 40 people here at UNM to sign up and start making mixes in the week that we've been up and running. Why not sign up at the site and start making mixes of your own? Could be fun!

Jared

jaredhobbs:
I forgot to mention, although the link is hidden at the bottom of the "about" page, you can see a map of registered users here: http://www.trackthismix.com/usermap. It's kinda neat to see where people are signing up from. Of course, we've had anonymous users visit the site from all over the world...

saint:
While this sounds like a cool sociological experiment, where does it fall as far as respecting copyright goes?

CheffoJeffo:
Can you perhaps be clearer about your intentions ?

I have registered and been through the site.

It looks like you are combining geocaching and Napster (dated terminology, I know, but both should be readily recognized) ... which means that, unless folks register near to me, and I am then willing to physically go find a CD that they have hidden, that my participation is wasted ... unless I hide a physical CD of music somewhere (in which case I cannot use any of my playlists since they all contain copyrighted music).

It seems to me that you are being deliberately obtuse ... although I am intrigued by the intellectual aspects of the puzzle.

Of course, I could be totally off base ...

jaredhobbs:
So as far as intentions go, this website is a way to facilitate the trading of mixtapes with friends or other people. There's a bunch of forums that link people up to share mixtapes or cds but they all require a user to mail the mix to the other person. This kinda makes it local, so the more people in your city to sign up and use the site the better. We did get the idea for the site from geocaching and sites like "Where's George?". Another use for the site was we wanted a way for local bands to promote their music by giving away cds. We were going to implement something where a band could burn a bunch of copies and get a special ID that shows up with a different icon or something and maybe let them have a little advertisement page. We didn't have time to implement all the features we wanted before the deadline was up.

As far as copyrights, I suppose that for the duration of the class any mixes made with copyrighted music would fall under fair use. After that though, as stated in the user agreement, you would need to either own the copyright to the music (like, if the mix is music from your own band) or use free music (such as creative commons licensed music). People have been making mixtapes since the 70s with copyrighted music however, so I don't know all the legal aspects of making them. One of the guys in our group made the point that if someone wanted to use this site to commit copyright infringement, it'd probably be the least effective way to do it...

Interesting topic... Anyone else have opinions?

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